Hero? Or villain? Edward Snowden leaked secrets about government tracking of phone calls, emails and more. It's too early to label him before we know more details; that means it's also premature to condemn him as some rushed to do.

If there's a silver lining to the terrorism in Boston, it's how Americans responded. The response to the Boston Marathon bombing deserves praise. The second-guessing is already intense, such as whether the FBI missed early warnings.

President Barack Obama uses victims to promote his agenda. But big government has created more victims than any other tragedy in America. We need to relieve their suffering by putting government back into its proper boundaries: big government control.

Those in their 20s are being stuck with dead-end jobs and shrinking incomes, thanks to federal policies that supposedly were going to help them, like Obamacare. Your friends and family in their 20s have big problems: They’re likely to be young, well-educated, and under-employed, or unemployed.

“We’ve lost the battle in Washington” for now, says Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. The new goals, he says, are for conservatives to prove their principles work in states and to defend against President Obama’s effort “to steamroll what’s left of the Republican Party here in Washington.”